Tag: expand

VMware Expand Hard Drive Size and Extend in CentOS 7 Linux

May 30, 2018

One approach to adding space to an existing Linux hard drive that is using Linux LVM is to add space to the drive. This can easily be accomplished in VMware. This has been tested using VMware vSphere Client for Windows with CentOS 7.5 (minimal install). To demonstrate a before and after, here are a few commands that can be used…

Add a new hard disk without rebooting in Linux

December 29, 2016

Having added a virtual hard drive to a virtual machine, the fdisk -cul command doesn’t reveal any new drives. There are a few ways to get Linux to recognize this new drive without having to reboot the computer. A tried and true method that I have used on many occasions is this approach. The problem with this approach is that…

VMware Expand Hard Drive Size and Extend in CentOS Linux

October 6, 2014

One approach to adding space to an existing Linux hard drive that is using Linux LVM is to add space to the drive. This can easily be accomplished in VMware. This has been tested using VMware Workstation 9.0 for Windows with CentOS 6.5 (minimal install). To demonstrate a before and after, here are a few commands that can be used…